Below are five hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking chief quality officers.

There isn't enough evidence to support widespread screening of Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in the U.S., a panel of national experts on disease prevention said Sept. 13. 

A healthcare worker in Los Angeles has become the first person in the U.S. to contract monkeypox from a workplace exposure, The Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 13. 

Hospital and health system chief nursing officers are focusing on nurse well-being and workforce retention as they head into the end of 2022. 

Cleveland Clinic on Sept. 13 lifted COVID-19 screenings, set visiting hours and visitor limits across all of its U.S. locations. 

Healthcare organizations' flu shot campaigns are in full force amid concerns that the upcoming season will be particularly severe.

Experts believe immunity to monkeypox after infection or vaccination is lifelong, The New York Times reported Sept. 8. 

National disease modeling suggests COVID-19 hospitalizations will remain stable through the end of September while cases and deaths fall.  

High-risk individuals should get updated COVID-19 boosters immediately while the rest of the U.S. should aim to get them by Halloween, Ashish Jha, MD, White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said during a Sept. 12 episode of "In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt" podcast.

Below are seven hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that posted job listings seeking chief medical officers in the last two weeks.

Here are four nurses who have made headlines for their leadership efforts on and off the job since Aug. 30: 

Some long COVID-19 patients still have impaired or loss of smell one year after symptom onset, suggesting the condition could be permanent, according to a small study published Sept. 8 in JAMA Network Open.

The CDC in a Sept. 9 advisory alerted providers of the potential for a rise in acute flaccid myelitis among children. AFM is a rare, polio-like complication of infection with an enterovirus. 

A 21-year-old man died after falling from a roof at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., on Sept. 9, according to the Journal Star.

Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has named its first three recipients of a $20,000 nursing school scholarship.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sept. 9 declared a state of emergency amid evidence that polio is spreading in communities around the state. The move unlocks federal resources to help the state respond and boost vaccination rates. 

The U.S. reached a historic medical milestone Sept. 9, recording its millionth organ transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. 

The CDC is reporting double-digit decreases in the rate of new COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations confirmed nationwide, according to the agency's COVID-19 data tracker weekly review published Sept. 9.

Here are 13 COVID-19-related studies Becker's has covered since Aug. 16: 

Health officials in California are investigating whether monkeypox contributed to the death of a patient who tested positive for the virus, CBS News reported Sept. 8.